Double murder in Siparia

Two men were chased and killed in a hail of bul­lets in Siparia on Sat­ur­day night. The bod­ies of Kwame Par­ris, 29, alias “Six,” of Co­conut Al­ley, Siparia, and Teshawn Bap­tiste, 25, al­so known as “Black­boy,” of Lowkie Trace, Pe­nal, were dis­cov­ered in Sen­non Vil­lage af­ter res­i­dents re­port­ed hear­ing loud ex­plo­sions around 9 p.m.

Res­i­dents told po­lice they heard sev­er­al gun­shots and saw two men run­ning. Min­utes lat­er, Par­ris was found ly­ing face down near the bath­room area of a house, bleed­ing from gun­shot wounds.

Bap­tiste’s body was lat­er dis­cov­ered in a drain along Rail­way Road, Sen­non Vil­lage Ex­ten­sion, with mul­ti­ple gun­shot wounds.

Po­lice re­cov­ered more than 25 spent 9mm and 5.56mm cas­ings, along with sev­en live rounds of am­mu­ni­tion, from the scene.

The killings oc­curred in a neigh­bour­ing com­mu­ni­ty where three mur­ders have been record­ed with­in the last month.

Last Thurs­day, Akiel Pack­ette, 40, of Tay­lor Av­enue, Quinam Road, was shot dead around 8:40 p.m. out­side Pack­ette De­lights along Quinam Road. A 25-year-old hair­dress­er who was sit­ting be­side him with her five-year-old daugh­ter was wound­ed in the at­tack, while the child es­caped in­jury.

Akiel’s younger broth­er, Os­ei Pack­ette, was mur­dered dur­ing a birth­day cel­e­bra­tion on Tay­lor Av­enue on June 19. Os­ei was shot dead, while an­oth­er man, Nicholas Mark, was stabbed to death.

Po­lice be­lieve those killings were linked to drug-re­lat­ed ac­tiv­i­ties. No ar­rests have been made in con­nec­tion with those mur­ders.